NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Training for International Space Station Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Training for International Space Station Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission will carry four people to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, and Stephanie Wilson, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia trained for their mission across the world, including NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and international training sites as well. Once aboard the space station, the crew will become Expedition 71/72 flight engineers, spending their time conducting science experiments, doing technology demonstrations in microgravity, performing spacewalks, and maintaining the space station.

For more on Crew-9 and its crew, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-9/

Zena Cardman's Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/zena-cardman/

Nick Hague's Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nick-hague/

Stephanie Wilson's Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/people/stephanie-d-wilson/

This will be Gorbunov’s first trip to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the military department with a specialty in operation and repair of aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Before being selected as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Space Corporation Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

This is the ninth rotational mission to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It works with the American aerospace industry to meet the goal of safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Find more information on NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 33 minutes

Release Date: July 25, 2024

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